'The Great #ADHD Myth?' seems to be violating causality, by saying more wrong things than are actually said overall. Like somehow pouring an entire bucket of bullshit into a teacup. Genuinely impressive, in an alarming way.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 13h ago

If I wanted to make the edit in a doc like this, I’d say something ridiculous like: ADHD is being all fidgety, and the drugs are like cocaine, which is to make you sit still. A sentence that makes zero sense. But that’s what was said. Amazing stuff. What?

Animal Farm. My mate had a dodgy copy and it was so different to the book I just couldn’t take it seriously.

Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco!@ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 17h ago

Whats a movie everyone fucking loves that you despise? It doesnt have to be objectively bad, you just objectively DID NOT. Heres one for me since Ive been on a Barbara Loden kick lately-

Still one of the best albums I own. And not just because it reminds me of being 16. I’m the exception to that rule you see.

The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 2d ago

44 years ago today, the first CD was produced. What is the first CD you owned?

If you lie awake wondering whether you caused your partner's depression, that worry is decent evidence you probably didn't. Clinical depression isn't anybody's fault.

So many people who can't tackle their own clutter will sort a friend's house out in an afternoon, cheerful and decisive, no hesitation at all. Then they go home to their own pile and it's back to square one. Why is someone else's overwhelm so much easier?

Monday Motivation! A year from now what will you wish you had started today?
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10 years since this gem by @astrokatie.com

Anyone know where Kevin Bacon's left his car keys? Asking for a friend of a friend of a friend of friend of a friend.

Mess triggers shame. Shame triggers avoidance, because who wants to walk into a room that makes them feel like a failure? The pile grows, which triggers more shame next time. Telling someone to just be more disciplined only adds a log to that fire.

Being solution-focused instead of problem-focused, and why the first step matters more than the whole plan.

Happy Friday! #FeelGoodFriday

A patron told me she was mortified by her spare room, still full of boxes from a house move four years earlier. She runs her own business and never misses a deadline. She wasn't lazy. She was burnt out, with nothing left in the tank for her own home.

Setting up a business from a standing start is exhausting

Patience and discipline. Not glamorous, but probably the two most important traits for building the life you actually want.

Remember, do not look directly at the sun today. If I were you, I'd also give the express and mail a miss too.

You can walk past the same pile for three weeks, feel the guilt of it every time, and neither part of you does anything about it. It stops being "I have a messy pile" and becomes "I'm the kind of person who can't deal with one". You are not broken.

One small nudge changes an entire trajectory. A simple bit of imagery for how real change actually starts.

Monday Motivation! Remember! If the plan isn't working you can change the plan but still keep the goal!
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That freeze you get looking at a messy room isn't laziness. It's your nervous system protecting itself from overload, the exact same machinery it would use for any other threat. Two hundred decisions with an empty tank, and it just shuts down.

The past is over, but it lives on in our thoughts. A look at rumination, and why you don't have to keep paying a price you've already paid.

Living for other people's opinions of you is a rough way to live. A look at why their thoughts about you aren't yours to manage.

Patient: so, do you think me being hard of hearing has contributed to my bird phobia? Doctor: maybe a smidgen. Patient: WHAT?!? WHERE?!?

Every single object in a messy room is a decision. Keep it, bin it, file it, fix it, give it away. Most of us can absorb a few without noticing. But 200 of them, with a decision making system already running on empty, and your brain just says nope.

Happy Friday! #FeelGoodFriday

Executive function is the name for the mental skills that run the admin department of your brain: task initiation, working memory, planning and sequencing, time perception, prioritising. Worth knowing which one is running on empty.

"It's not my fault, it's my wooden leg." A little look at why blaming things outside us feels safe but keeps us stuck.

Cleaning, organising and decluttering get lumped together, but they ask completely different things of your brain. Cleaning is muscle memory. Organising is spatial. Decluttering is decision making, and it's usually decluttering people mean when they say they're overwhelmed.

Monday Motivation! To be grateful for what you’re going to have next in life you first have to learn to be grateful for what you have now.
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Your brain predicts your future using only your past. Here's why that keeps so many of us stuck in the same loop.

If you've been told to just be more disciplined about the mess, here's a reframe. For a lot of people, clutter isn't a discipline problem. It's an executive dysfunction problem, which is a different thing entirely. New episode: Clutter & Overwhelm.